On a quiet Saturday morning in 2018, Hawaii got the worst text message imaginable:Ballistic missile inbound. This is not a drill.

For 38 minutes, an entire state waited for nuclear fire that never came.

This episode of Paul G’s Corner isn’t about the button that got pressed. It’s about the people who had to live inside the mistake. The officials trapped by broken systems. The public forced to confront the unthinkable. And a country that barely noticed before moving on.

Panic in Paradise is a story about human error, institutional fragility, and what happens when paradise briefly becomes the front line of global fear.

History didn’t explode.It hesitated.get your swag at www.paulgnewton.com

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